Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Camus

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Albert Camus

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Amelia Earhart

I did for the fun of it

Amanda Hocking

You know what would be fun? Nobody wants to play Guitar Hero. But you can play the Beatles! You loved the Beatles!

Amanda Hocking

I think I draw most inspiration from writers like Richelle Mead and filmmakers like John Hughes. They both really understand the experience of being a teenager and how insistent and intense everything feels, but they're also smart, savvy, and fun.

Amanda Palmer

The cool thing too, as you get older, you get way better at identifying who's an ally and who isn't. And who has good, positive, "let's make all this sh*t better and let's try to have fun and fix sh*t" people as opposed to "let's sit around and b*tch and berate" people.

Annie Leibovitz

No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.

Anthony Mackie

At Juilliard, I couldn't afford to have fun. I went to school and stayed home.

Anthony Mackie

If I get the opportunity to be an actor and do some cool, fun and interesting projects, I'm going to do that.

Anna Popplewell

I took my archery lessons. It was really fun to learn something new.

Anna Paquin

I'm drawn to doing interesting stuff at work. And some of the time with the supernatural, you get to do really crazy, fun things. But I'm not a big genre-fantasy gal, particularly.

Anna Quindlen

Well, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting older than we pretend. It was interesting to me when I first started working on this book that I'd mentioned that I was writing a memoir about aging and everybody would moan and groan and carry on.

Angie Dickinson

My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.

Cindy Gallop

I had a high-flying career. Never wanted to get married. All I wanted to do was have some fun.

Claes Oldenburg

I think the Freudian impulse is in everything, so I just accept it. I don't always believe what Freud is saying but it sounds like fun.

Cilla Black

I do not miss ITV, God no! Have you seen ITV lately?

Chuck Yeager

Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always a high priority in whatever I was doing.

Cindy Crawford

Models are like baseball players. We make a lot of money quickly, but all of a sudden we're 30 years old, we don't have a college education, we're qualified for nothing, and we're used to a very nice lifestyle. The best thing is to marry a movie star.

Cindy Crawford

You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs.All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start drooping.

Cillian Murphy

You take the job very seriously and between action and cut, that's where your focus should be. And then there's a lot of levity in between and a lot of good fun.

Chuck Robb

[Oliver North is a] document-shredding, Constitution-trashing, Commander in Chief-bashing, Congress-thrashing, uniform-shaming, Ayatollah-loving, arms-dealing, criminal-protecting, résumé-enhancing, Noriega-coddling, Social Security-threatening, public school-denigrating, Swiss-banking-law-breaking, letter-faking, self-serving, election-losing, snake-oil salesman who can't tell the difference between the truth and a lie.

Alfred de Vigny

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.

Alfred Hitchcock

There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

Alfred Hitchcock

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.

Alfred Hitchcock

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

Alfred Hitchcock

Puns are the highest form of literature.

Alfred Hitchcock

I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

Alfred Hitchcock

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

Alf Landon

Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.

Angela Carter

For all cats have this particularity, each and every one, from the meanest alley sneaker to the proudest, whitest she that ever graced a pontiff's pillow — we have our smiles, as it were, painted on. Those small, cool, quite Mona Lisa smiles that smile we must, no matter whether it's been fun or it's been not. So all cats have a politician's air; we smile and smile and so they think we're villains

Angela Carter

I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous.

Angela Carter

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Amy Vanderbilt

Everyone knows that a man can marry even if he reaches the age of 102, is penniless, and has all his facilities gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him.